The first time Vortec 4200 chief engineer Ron Kociba showed his creation to the press almost three years ago, his face had an expression, if you can conjure the image, combining cat-that-ate-the-canary satisfaction with the cautious optimism of a poker player betting a good, but not totally airtight, hand....More

Retired auto technician Pete Wright had been working on rotary engines for a few years when, in 1978, Mazda Motor Corp. put one in its new RX-7 sports car. Soon Wright was fixing a lot of clutches....More

“The only motive I see is that someone might want to cause damage and chaos. The other possible motive is to cause embarrassment. And right now, that can only be done on a targeted one-to-one basis,” Bryson Bort says....More